Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the events and meetings projected: Pageant of the Empire during July and August; the World's Advertising Congress to which the U. S. will send 3,000 delegates; gatherings of the British Legion, British Women's Temperance Association, British Missionary Societies, League of Nations Union, Eugenics Education Society, International Council of Women, World's Evangelical Alliance, Young Women's Christian Association...
...announced that on April 10 and 11 a great conference of women would assemble in Washington. They will gather under the auspices of the Women's National Committee on Law Enforcement. They will meet at two luncheons, hear an assortment of speeches, call on Mrs. Coolidge, see a pageant (America the Beautiful, in which under the eyes of the watching nations, law will battle with lawlessness, honor with dishonor, and wisdom with ignorance, showing the successive steps of the gaining of Prohibition and the means by which law is now broken), and pass resolutions...
...Walter Scott found history in a state of patient antiquarianism as constant in its treatment as a frieze of the Parthenon and left it as diverse as an ever-changing pageant," said Mr. George Macaulay Trevelyan in his talk on "The relation of "History and Literature" in the Faculty room of the Union last night. Mr. Trevelyan pointed out that the greatest works in each of the fields of literature and history, are those which have been written with a vital relation to the other field...
...shadow of his great memorial, whither he had been escorted by a most distinguished gathering of architects, artists, statesmen, he was presented with the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. This tribute had been given in all to six persons.* Warren G. Harding officiated in the pageant. In a laudatory speech, Royal Cortissoz said: "Has he [Bacon] not stated in enduring beauty the faith of a nation in an immortal leader?" Henry Bacon was born of New England parents at Watseka, Ill., in 1866. He was graduated from the University of Illinois, completed his studies in Europe...
QUEEN VICTORIA?Fragmentary but shrewdly illuminating pageant of 60 years of English history...